Is Chapel Hill eating away at Ol’ Roy’s brain?
For many of us native North Carolinians, Carolina basketball has been something special. It’s long been a powerful unifying force that brought the folks living in the BIG HOUSE together with the folks doing the yardwork around the BIG House together.
The late great Dean Smith was a huge liberal. But he wasn’t out there publicly shoving his personal political beliefs down the throats of his team’s fans. I think Coach Smith understood that Republicans AND Democrats cheered his team on and donated to his program. Michael Jordan was also a big liberal. He was once famously quoted saying, in response to his lack of open political activism, that “Republicans AND Democrats buy tennis shoes.”
But Roy Williams hasn’t hesitated to speak his mind. From telling a CBS camera crew he didn’t give a [expletive] about North Carolina,” to giving aid and comfort to the #BoycottNorthCarolinatiltranniescanusetheladiesroom crowd, Ol’ Roy — the head coach version — has really taken some opportunities to, um, step in it.
I’ve got some personal experience with Coach Williams. I spent the summers of my 7th and 8th grade years at Carolina Basketball camp. (I was undergoing quite a vertical growth spurt at the time. Dad thought it was a good time to get acquainted with a basketball. I stuck with the game until my growth became more of the horizontal nature, and then switched to football. )
Both summers, bottom-of-the-barrel graduate assistant Roy Williams was the counselor leading my group. (Not a grey hair to be seen then.) I swear — studying under ol’ Roy had me thinking I had mistakenly signed up for Marine boot camp. He honestly seemed to be the second-coming of Bobby Knight. Coach Smith occasionally stopped by to visit our group. He was always the soft-spoken good cop to Ol’ Roy’s bad cop.
Based on those experiences, I could never have imagined Ol’ Roy going native in Chapel Hill.
In the wake of his team’s 2017 championship win, we’re now getting THIS from Ol’ Roy:
Why would you want to deny your kids the thrill of visiting with the President of the United States in The White House? Talk about an experience of a lifetime.
(Maybe Trump won’t invite him. Or maybe invite the whole team BUT him. Maybe Gonzaga would like to go?)
We shell out our money to hear singers sing and watch actors perform. NOT preach about politics. We all know Roy lives among a bunch of nasty liberals right there in Orange County. But who spends their time in front of the TV, or shells out their money for tickets, to hear Ol’ Roy regurgitate the leftist stupidity he hears around the Chapel Hill cocktail party circuit?
Who does the man think he is? Chairman of the Wimmen’s Studies department at the university, or something?
As R. Williams said, he has not been invited to the White House so how could he say he is going there? Besides, Coach K. of the GOPeee also spoke out about how bad Hate Bill 2 is/was.
You are not giving any credence to his opinions by invoking Coach Kysasdfasdfy. All coaches need to stick to their various stick and ball venues and stay away from things they know nothing about such as common sense and the issues of the day. Which using that metric it should also be said of celebrities…and for that matter “journalists” as well.
The coaches had to get involved since the players can’t read. Some one has to tell them how or what to think; they can’t learn it in bogus UNC courses.
Numbers for sports are down a lot of places, and a lot of it has to do with the mixing in of left wing politics with sports. These political hacks like Ol’ Roy and Coach K have many of us fed up with something we used to enjoy – ACC sports and especially basketball. It is just not the same anymore and it loses its appeal.
Why should the extreme left’s War on Womens privacy and safety have anything to do with sports? These sports hypocrites do not send their players and cheerleaders in to shower together.
Sports was a great unifier when the politics was out of it, but that has now all changed for the worse.
The NCAA and ACC need their tax exempt status revoked for their blatant involvement in politics. I salute Rep. Mark Brody for his bill to take the steps to do this. I am proud that he is our GOP National Committeeman from NC.
Yeah, I saw something today where even ESPN has started to ask their folks to stay away from the radical leftist views. I guess they are starting to see people flee as well.
We’ll see how that works out for ESPN. After all, haters gotta hate. Or where ol’ Roy is concerned, cheaters gotta cheat.
ESPN’s numbers have been in free fall. Mixing politics and sports is the reason.
If invited, Roy should follow the example of Coach Dawn Staley of the national champion South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team: “I’ve got options now. Yeah, I’m going to the White House. It’s what it stands for. It’s what national champions do. We’ll go to the White House.”
For the love of Pete, keep the dadgum politics out of my sports!
So, which would these nit-wit lefties rather do, visit a White House where the president is probably lying to them, or one where he’s doing his level-best to make our country great again- one fit for national champions?